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THURSDAY, AI‘KIL SI, 1887.
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Meetings —Savannah Rifle Association: St.
Andrew's Society; Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, F,
and A. M.
Hotel— lndian Harbor Hotel, Greenwich,
Conn.
Wood— D. R. Thomas.
STEAMsmp Schedule—Ocean Steamship Cos.
Legal Notices— Application for Incorporation
of Savannah and Veruonburg Railway Cos.
Cheap Column Advertisements— Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Personal; Board; Miscellaneous.
In less than three months the General As
sembly of Georgia will be grinding out
more laws.
In regard to that alleged kidnapping case
the question is: What will South Carolina
do about it?
“Jim, the Penman,” has boon on a flying
trip to Washington. This has no reference
to the letter-writing Maine statesman.
Concentrated effort generally accom
plishes its purposes: hence the success of the
improvement companies recently organized
in some Georgia cities
In New York last Monday retailers of
bogus butter were made to pay fines to the
amount, of 54.750 Nothing but the inflic
tion of severe penalties will prevent the sale
of adulterated food.
The Paris jiapers discredit the report cur
rent in New York that Sarah Bernhardt has
tried matrimony again It seems that
Angelo, whom it is said she has made her
husband, has a wife living in Paris from
whom he has not been divorced.
In a letter to the New York Herald Gen.
Sherman denies that he ever wrote compro
mising letters to Gen. Bogan. He says that
Gen. Logan's friends are at liberty to pub
lish every letter ever written by him to the
General, “private, confidential or official.' 1
This, together with Mrs. Logan's denial,
ought to settle the matter, and the entire
country doubtless hopes that it will.
It is said that Mrs. Whitney, the mother
of Dorothy, is rearing her children to de
light, as she does, in aiding the poor. In
sending the check for $5,000 to the rector
of Bt. John's church. Washington, for the
benefit of the church orphanage, she wrote:
“If Dorothy could speak I am sure she
would say how happy she is to send the in
closed to you for the aid of the little or
phans under your care.
The New York Independent claims to
have solved the mystery attached to “Ar
thur Richmond,” who soseverely criticised
Secretary Bayard in the columns of the
North American Review. The Independent
“Arthur Richmond'' is none other
iHnl-Gail Hamilton," whose real name is
Dodge, the cousin of Mr James G.
The criticism was certainly vono-
AfifiHrnough to have boen written by Miss
, Ben Butter worth, of Ohio,
Mpavisitiug New York, said to a reporter
day: "Six powerful metropolitan
ean band themselves together and
defeat any candidate. Those editors, be
cause they happen not to be pleased with
the candidate, use all the resources at their
command to defeat him.” When Mr. Blaine
read Congressman Butterworth’s remarks
he doubtless sighed and said: “Too true!
too true!”
J. W. McCauley, a Chicago insurance
agent, is being sued by a photographer
named T. D. Edgewood, who was employed
to photograph the remains of McCauley’s
dead infant. In order that the photographs
be taken, the body of the infant was
exliurr.od after it had lieen in the grave a
month. MeCauloy was so shocked by the
horrible pictures that he refused to pay the
sls demanded for them. Chicago seems
bent upon establishing a reputation that will
keep civilized people away front her.
The oldest rooster in this country is said
to he the weathercock recently placed on the
ventilating tower of the Madison Avenue
Reformed church of Albany, N. Y. It is of
•olid brass, measures forty by thirty-two
inches, was made in Holland, mid sur
mounted the steeple of the Dutch church ut
the foot of State street, Alliany, from 1856
to 1800. It bears the marks of three Indian
bullets. In its present position it will doubt
less serve as a warning to prevaricators, as
well as show the direction of the wind
Mexico seems to desire more diplomatic
corresjiondenee with the United States gov
ernment. At El Paso another Cutting case
is causing excitement. It seems that l'edro
Garcia, editor of Obeervador Fronterizo ,
has been arrested by the Mexican authori
ties and lodged in Cutting's old cell in the
Paso del Norte jail, for calling the Muyor
of Paso del'Norte a drunkard, imd the Tux
Collector of the State of Chiliuuhua a rob
ber. Garcia's paper is published in El
Paso. It is to be ho|ied, if it becomes nec
essary to send a special commissioner to
Mexico to inquire into Garcia's case, tliat a
man will lie selected who is proof against
Mexican liquor.
Morris Ranger, whose name was ouce high
above all others among the *|**ulatoin in
the cotton exchanges of the world, died in
New York Inst Mu inlay. Ranger was u
German. He went to New York wlien a
young man. and afterward represented an
American firm in ]Jv*r|iool. He twice nor-
Bered the cotton crops of the world, and
drew millions of ilollors into his coffers. ]
Finally he himself was cornered, and all Ins
millions lipp<*l n way at unoe. His failure |
was the greatest ever known in Out Eastern j
market, and a number of leading cotton
firm* want down with him. He never iw '
•avert'd Ids financial position With iewken
•sett and shattered health ha returned to
Mm York, when; iu> lived Ut ob.-unty ,
Me was Utwi uid j
Waterway Traffic Benefited.
There is not much doubt that the inter
state commerce law will prove highly bene
ficial to the steam vessel and barge trans
portation lines on the rivers, lakes and
canals. For years these lines have been
gradually declining in importance. They
were unable to compete with the railroads.
The railroads which came into competition
with them made special efforts to drive
them out of business. On the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers the number of steamboats
is much smaller than it was a few years ago,
although the volume of business has in
creased enormously. Since the interstate
commerce law went into effect, however,
the boats on these rivers have more business
than they can accommodate, and contracts
have been made for new ones. It may lie,
however, that the contracts are lading given
out too soon. It is by no means certain yet
what ruling the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will make in cases where there is
competition between rail and water lines.
The great transcontinental lines say that
if the law is enforced as it stands they will
lose their business with China, Japan and
Australia, as it will" not bear transportation
between San Francisco and New York. In
that event the country' may lose much of
the trade which it now has with those coun
tries.
It is safe to say that it will require several
months for the commission to find out ex
actly how the business of the country is af
fected by the law. There is so much clamor
from so many different sources at present
that it is impossible to determine what
merit there is in most of the complaints.
The railroads appear to be remarkably will
ing to obey both the letter and the spirit of
the law, but it is not certain what their pur
pose is. It may bo that they are anxious to
comply strictly with its provisions, or it
may be that they feel certain that a rigid
enforcement of it will raise such opposition
on the part of shippers that Congress will
modify it to suit their views of what it
ought to be.
It is certain that there has been quite an
increase in rates. The increase has been so
groat in cases where there were special con
tracts that some manufacturing establish
ments have closed their doors, and business
houses have suffered a very great decrease
in business What these manufacturing es
tablishment? anil business houses have lost,
however, will be gained, doubtless, by manu
facturers and business men in other locali
ties.
The law has affected the railroads pretty
much as it has shippers. It has hurt some
and benefited others. Comparatively few
find the volume of their business about as it
would have been had the law not been
passed It is probable that the courts will
be asked to solve some troublesome prob
lems in the course of a few weeks.
The Parnell Letter.
There is no probability that the London
Times will be able to prove that the letter,
condoning the offenses of the Phoenix Park
assassins, which it published, and which it
nlleged was written by Mr. Parnell to Mr.
Eagan, is genuine. Mr. Parnell, there is
every reason to believe, never entertained
the sentiments expressed in the letter. On
the contrary, he expressed the utmost ab
horrence of the crimes at the time they
were committed. He has always advised
against crimes of violence in the struggle
which Ireland is making for home rule.
He is too cautious to haVe written such a
letter even if he approved of the acts of the
assassins. He is well aware of the risk he
would run of having a letter of that sort
quoted against him at a time when it might
bo used with great effect to destroy his
power and influence. Mr. Parnell’s whole
career shows that he is a very conservative,
cool-headed statesman, and those who know
him best do not hesitate to say that ho is
about the last man who would be likely to
commit such an act of folly as the writing
of this letter.
The time of its production is against its
genuineness. It was published just prior to
the taking of the vote on the second read
ing of the Irish crimes act Will, and, ap]>ar
ently, was intended to affect the vote. In
that respect it was a failure, as it probably
did not change a vote one way or the other.
Mr. Parnell’s character for fair dealing, and
for frankness and honorable conduct, is so
well established that few members of Par
liament believed that the letter was genu
ine, and those few doubtless had already
made up their minds to vote for the crimes
bill.
This attempt to blacken Mr. Parnell's
character recalls the Morey letter affair,
which attracted very wide attention. The
purpose of it was to defeat Mr. Garfield for
the Presidency. It failed, but there is
every reason to think that it lost him a good
many thousands of votes in different parts
of the country.
Mr. Parnell has indignantly denied that
he is the author of the letter, and now the
Times must bring out its proofs in support
of its charge. Thus far it has done nothing
to prove that the letter is genuine beyond
publishing a few genuine signatures of Mr.
Purnell’s for comparison with that attached
to the letter. It will have to do more than
that, however, liefore it succeeds in con
vincing the public that it has not done Mr.
Parnell a great injury. Mr. Parnell insists
on the proof, and he is entitled to it, or an
admission by the 'limps that it made a grave
mistake.
On Monday Col. Ballington Booth and
wife arrived in Now York from London.
Col. Booth is the son of the Salvation Army
leader, Gen. Booth. He announce* that his
mission in this country is "To win America
over to our King, whose dying millions
shall salvation sing.” Delegations of Sal
vationists from many cities met Col. Booth
and his wifi*, and ' a grand reception was
given them. The couple will make a tour
of all the principal cities. The Salvationists
say that they intend to hold services "upon
every foot of land in the United States.”
Their undertaking is a big one, lmt it is
said that they ure increasing in the North
and South w ith astonishing rapidity. They
have ho|*cH of inducing; Saui Jones, the
Evangelist, to bneouM their leader on this
side of the Atlantic.
The announcement of the death of Vicar
General William (Juinn whs received with
deep regret in New York. Ho was quite
well known in this city. His manner whs
grave and kind, and those who were , well
acquaints*! with him were not slow to dc
tert n strong vein of humor in him. Tie-
New York Sun says that them will Is* no
hurry in appointing Ilia sueumsor. and tlmt
Father Donnelley, of Bt. Mhiiuele, and
Father Slattery, of tie* Cathedral pro-a*,
are mentioned its likely to uciv W j p,
vans’ll office.
V Mormon leswopaper in l ig>h*n City, '
Utah, <*alls lie* Maine statc-mso * Grand j
Old BUnie * I'i m! f| oiu so- b s Bourns is I
wot *4 sue b eradii to thu rmjtptrtA
THE MORNING NEWS: THURSDAY - , APRIL 21, 1887.
The Unhappy Czar.
The Czar of Russia is chief of 340,000,000
of people and is respected and loved by the
greater part of them, and yet he is virtu
ally a prisoner within a few miles of his
own capital. His residence at present is in
the small and unpretentious palace, known
as Gatchina, about six miles from St. Pe
tersburg. It is a rather pleasant place, and
doubtless the Czar would enjoy himself
there if it were not for the constant danger
of death at the hands of the Nihilists. The
palace is guarded by an army, and no one is
permitted to enter or leave it who is un
known to the guards. The greatest precau
tions are taken to insure the Czar’s safety.
The difficulty is, however, to determine the
source from which danger may come. Dyna
mite, and poison are only two of the inany
agencies which the Nihilists may employ to
accomplish their purpose.
It scorns remarkable that the Czar, with
such vast powers at his command and with
the great masses of his people devoted to him,
is unable to destroy the very few of his sub
jects who are seeking his life. That he is
not anil that he is compelled to live the life
of a prisoner show how dangerous a few
persons are who are banded together in se
cret organizations. The Nihilists, of course,
believe that they are comparatively safe
from detection, and there is no doubt that
the great majority of them have more than
the average amount of corn-age. The Czar
is also a man of courage. It not
infrequently happens that he makes his ap
pearance in the public streets, or in the for
est just outside of the walls of his palace.
Those who accompany him on such occasions
would much rather take the chance of es
caping with their lives on the battlefield.
As great as the power of the Czar is, and
vast as his possessions are, there are com
paratively very few people probably who
would bo willing to change places with
him.
The State Library.
In common with other Southern States,
during the war, Georgia lost much of her
public property. The State library, then in
the old capital at Milledgeville, was at the
mercy of frieiid and foe, and many valuable
volumes were purloined. When Atlanta
was made the capital wfiat was left of the
library was greatly injured in being re
moved to that city, and subsequentjy it was
again injured by being improperly cared
for. In 1873 that part of it composed of
volumes relating to historical, biographical,
scientific, and miscellaneous subjects had al
most entirely disappeared, and soon after
all the volumes except those relating to law
and government statistics were sold. Now
the State owns a library which is of use to
lawyers, but of no use to anybody else.
It is time some action were taken looking
to the collection of a library which wjll be
something more than a confused mass of
law books The new capital will be com
pleted in 1889, and ample provision will be
made within its walls for the proper care
of books. The General Assembly at the
summer session should devise a plan by
which eventually Georgia may have a
library that will be a credit to her wealth
and culture. Asa first step a librarian
should be appointed who possesses wide in
formation and who has hail exiierience in
the selection and care of books. To this
end a commission, or a board of trustees,
should be elected, who shall
have the appointment of the librarian, and
who shall also be empowered to see that he
discharges his duty faithfully. The same
board should assist in the selection of books,
and should also have the custody of an an
nual appropriation to be expended upon the
care and the increase of the library.
It may be urged that the State cannot
afford to expend money upon a library.
The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen is in great
force in the General Assembly, and he is
never So happy as when voting against the
expenditure of money. But the right kind
of a library would be of great practical
value, and the members of the
General Assembly who have the
interests of the State at heart will not hesi
tate to move in the matter, the Hon. Poti
phar Peagreen to the contrary notwith
standing. Georgia is surely rich enough to
expend annually a moderate sum upon
books intended for the use of all her citizens.
The library in its present condition would be
considered a disgrace in the newest and
weakest State of the Union. Let us put a
little money in books
A few days ago at Fieldsboro* N. J., a
man in a covered circus wagon drove up to
the village church, and, before the aston
ished inhabitants fully realized what he was
about, decorated the sides of the edifice with
flaming posters representing female horse
back riders in all sorts of daring positions.
When, a bystander remonstrated with him
the man smiled and said: “Say, old man,
just you turn yourself inside out for a min
ute* while 1 work on the dates. Don’t you
know that this Is a legitimate show and be
lieves in advertising I I have orders to bill
this town, and that’s what I’m going to do.
You want to work me for bill-board passes,
hut I am on to your racket, and if
you give pio any trouble I will smother
you.” The fellow claimed to be a ‘ ‘reformed
drummer.”
Henry George says that General Master
Workman Powderly’s profession of loyalty
to the United States flag, “either for himself
or for the order, Is a work of supereroga
tion.*’ "As for the red flag,” ho continues,
“in so far as it represents the recognition of
universal brotherhood and the aspiration for
universal fraternity, it stands for the high
est of sentiments and the noblest of causes. ”
George has but one step further to go to
place himself in full accord with the Anar
chists, anil that stop is either to kill a police
man or to throw u dynamite bomb at a
capitalist.
It is probable that Georgia marble will Ik*
used in the construction of the new public
building in Boston. Prof H. W. Haynes, of
that city, who is an authority on the sub
ject of uiarlile, says it is a question whether
that in Georgia dots not rival even the cele
brated Carrara marble of Italy. It would
be a graceful thing for Boston to use Geor
gia marble in her new building. This State
bus I sought a little of everything from Bos
ton, and there should be some reciprocity
in trade.
Mrs. Sophia J. Itruggermun, a widow who
keeps a little confectionery and news store
in New York, has just distinguished herself
by kui’CMtiulljf relief jug an attempt to boy
oott her. Kke I fought a temgh riding whip,
•ought tin* li*ode|- among her enemies and
bulled him until lie hgg**d for mercy. Hire
now lio* all tin- i-uotiinc*r* she wants.
oominittew of It K ly*e I’amp No |,f’on- I
federate Volunteer*, of lti**iiin**nij, Vs., ha* j
■■ait a <ir<-sihu to the Memorial w letina of !
tb Smith suggesting May .si U* I lie Jlt ojjcf !
day for (stylos • met to Uc Coofssierata
dead The aoggoaUon m a good one.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Gen. Young’s Disappointment.
From the Anniston Rot Blast Deni.)
Gen. P. M. B. Young is the.Tienm of misplaced
confidence. The climate iff fit Petersburg was
too cold. The charms of Vienna were just
suited to so gallant a eaiaUsr, who is yet un
married.. It is too bad that he did not realize
the dream of "whirling in the mazes of the de
lirious waltz the yellow-haired f jretehens to the
dulcet symphonies of Johann Strauss'most al
luring strains.” The General would have made
a brilliant minister.
. —,„L , ~
Most and His Friends.
From the New York World (Der.i.)
When the hangings at Chicago are over, a
? meter policy may seem wise to Most and liis
riends. But if in spite of the example set they
continue in the same direction they are now
pointed they will, sooner or later, be where the
plea of insanity only can save them from the
fate of the objects of their admiration now con
demned to death. Our Goddess of Liberty is
patient and long suffering, but she may be relied
on to act with an astonishing vigor when she
takes the trouble to deal with her malignant in
surers as they deserve. This is not a congenial
home for bloodthirsty creatures who are unable
to appreciate the blessings they enjoy.
Where New York Democrats Stand.
From the New York Times (Rep.)
We find that those Democrats who know what
the party feeling is, and arc willing to state it
without prejudice or-concealment, agree in the
opinion that the Democracy of the St at e of Nc-.v
\ork is so well disposed toward President Cleve
land that if a State convention were to lie held
to-morrow It would send to the national con
vention a delegation Substantially or entirely
unanimous in favor of his renomination; that so
far as the eye of political prophecy can pene
trate the future there is no cause of change
visible or to be apprehended which might turn
the tide of party sentiment against the Presi
dent; that the party organizations in the State
and its sub-divisions, though not free from dif
ferences as to Mr. Cleveland's policy and as to
the advisability of his renomination, are yet
most decidedly to-be set down as favorable to
him, and as likely to shape their future action
with a view to placing him in the field and sup
porting him loyally in 1888.
BRIGHT BITS.
A Capt. Green is lecturing on “Our Coast
Defenses.” It is supposed that he carries our
coast defenses with him to illustrate his lec
tures.— Norristown Herald.
A popular whiter, who sometimes has a had
“spell,” wrote the name of the illustrious author
of “Pilgrim’s Progress'’ as "John Bunion.” His
publisher suggested that it be put ill a footnote.
—Living Church.
The girls who put away their winter boots
For good about a fortnight ago,
Will soon ho making pretty hathing suits
For flirting in the roller, don-cher-know.
— Boston Cuorier.
Asa simple little exercise for strengthening
the memory there is no method more effective
than that of inviting an elderly maiden aunt to
pay you a visit and then trying to forget the
date she fixes for her arrival.— Chicago Tribune.
“I want to put this package where my wife
will be sure to flud it,” said Brown as he was
leaving the house.
“If that’s the ease,” dryly remarked his
friend, “just inn up stairs and put it under her
bed.”— Harper's Bazar.
“Now, woman’s sphere—” began Mrs. Mc-
Swilligen.
“Oh, yes, I know what that is,” replied her
husband.
“Well, what is it?”
“Why. woman's fear is a mouse.”— Pittsburg
Chronicle.
A dentist in Germany advertised his willing
ness to pull or plug teeth on the Emperor's
birthday. Children who were taken by their
parents to have a couple of teeth pulled in com
memoration of the Emperor's birthday must
have rejoiced that William doesn’t reach the
age of 90 several times a year.— Norristown
Herald.
“Mr. Judkins,” said Mrs. J., “that new beau
of Mary's isn't a proper young man. You are
her father, and it is your duty to sit on him at
once.”
“Why, mamma,” Interrupted the little Jud
kins heir apparent, “that's just what Mary does
every night, and ft don't hurt him a bit.”—Rail
way Advocate
Mother (to wayward son)—l saw you kissing
the servant girl on the stairs.
Wayward Son—That's just about the size
of it.
Mother—Well, ain't you ashamed of your con
duct?
Son—No: that’s the servant girl's privilege,
and I don’t propose to, rob her of it.—Texas
Siftings.
Sc ene—Drawing room. Lady at piano, sing
ing visibly. Men apart.
De Browne—Upon my word! The gyrl is ab
solutely without conscieiMre. don't ye know.
Van Smith—How’s that? I thought you did
not even know her nanH?.
De Browne—No more I do! But yecawn't say
there’s anything of the still, small voice about
that, cawn you?
Van Smith, being from Chicago, does not see
it .—Judge.
A bright little Kingston lad, who is anxiously
awaiting the arrival of his seventh birthday,
which his mother says conies in the month of
roses, made the following suggestion to future
etymologists, and however much it may seem to
violate the fuudameutal rules of etymology, if
at all, the word really looks like a practical ac
quisition that may supply an existing need.
Speaking of an approaching neighborhood
gathering or social party at a private house, the
littje fellow said: “Jla, when do they have that
big ‘stimulation' out at grandma's?’ —Kingston
Freeman.
PERSONAL.
Gov. Green, of New Jersey, is a graceful
dancer.
Mrs. Langtry will {mss the summer in the Yo
Semite valley.
George W. Cable’s two sisters have followed
him to Northampton.
A BRONZE STATUE of John C. Breckinridge will
bo erected next fall at Lexington, Ky.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is purchasing orchids
by the carload for his house at Newport.
Mr. Gladstone has consented to be Past
Chief Companion of the Liberal League, Dept
ford. England.
Prince Montleart, recently deceased, loft his
entire fortune, estimated at (i0.000.000f., to the
Queen of Italy.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, who is now on
a concert tour, is requesting the ladies in her
audiences to remove their huts.
Koasziewski, the last Polish national poet
was at San liemo during the recent earthquakes
and the exposure he there suffered hastened his
death.
Mrs. Charles W. Peterson, of Philadelphia,
widow of the founder of Peterson's Magazine,
has decided to publish and edit the magazine
herself.
Props. Farnhau, Hadley and Bipley, of
Yule, will sail for Europe the latter part of
Jun<\ They will take a walking trip through-
Switzerland.
King of Africa, is opposed to single
hlessedno-w.wlle is 18 years old. and lias l.iiOo
wive*. A family jar in his household is sugges
tive of a Riviera earthquake.
Gen. John A. Gibbon; of the United States
Army, is a brother of Cardinal Gibbons. The
General drop|ie<l the “s ' from the tamily name
for some personal and unknown reason.
Sir Lionkll Sackvillk Wert ami his daugh
ters will pass this summer In England. Baron
d'ltuj üba. the Driuiliuu Minister, will go to Paris.
Waubinglon will soon he diplomatically empty!
Senator Saulsbury tim'd to lie a moderate
drinker, blit now he does not even indulge in
Delaware port. His reform is said to be due to
the fate ot his brother Willard, who died from
drinking some years ago
Judge McCuka, of Wilmington, N C., has a
gift of rare eloquent*'. Whon only 0 years old
he was lifted up on a table at Fayetteville to
make a speech of weleome to Lufayette, for
w'hom the town was lUtmoil.
Bishop William Taylor, whose self-support
ing mission* on the Coan> attract great atten
tiiai, is a Bplcudiil luulffiig nun. with piercing
eyes anil very bright Countenance His U'ni.i
Is of silky texture, and is long und spreading
and of pure white
.li'hti’h H Schwab, one nf tba mmrt violent nn<l
virulent of lll** New Ylirti Aiuln |iit.
Kully of tlie owiwrablii of fcrt.An In ifoverii
iiieiif IxHi'U II I. not Iwlfnvml tijnl Mr. ft lm|,
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WHAT DID THE DOG SEE?
A Strange but Well-Authenticated In
stance of Canine Second Sight.
From Chamber*' Journal.
It has often been said that animals have as
keen a perception and as quick an apprecia
tion as man himself of anything out of the us
ual order of things, or partaking in any way of
a preternatural character. Whether the whole
animal creation are endowed with this singular
sagacity it is impossible to say, and would be
equally impossible to prove; but as regards
dogs and horses at any rate—if we are to be
lieve the many stories which have been related
on the very best authorities—it is certain that
those animals have been the first to recognize—
and to testify by their fright and terror the
force of such recognition—that they are in the
presence of something beyond their ken; and
the next step Is, with true animal sagacity, to
seek safety in flight, with the usual accompani
ment of scared looks, dropped tails and ears,
and drooped heads.
In the following curious narrative remarkable
instance is given of a dog having evidently seen
something not seen by either his master or mis
tress, which evidently at first caused him great
delight, but which, on closer investigation, turn
ed out to be empty space, and produced in the
<log all the signs of abject fear. The peculiar
circumstances of the story, which were related
to the writer by a friend, whose word he can
have no reason to doubt, are simply these:
A young lady. Miss F—>—, was on a visit to
a family of name and position. Col and Mrs.
G , who occupied a large mansion in one of
the home counties. They possessed a favorite
setter, a pet of everybodys, but especially of
Miss F , who was as fond of the dog as the
dog was of her. Wherever Miss F went,
walking, driving or riding, Flora was sure to be
close at hand. And iu the drawing-room the
dog would sit by Miss F 's side, lay her long,
white nose on the lady’s knee, and look up earn
estly in her face, making that peculiar sort of
snoring in the nose which pet dogs often at
tempt, either to attract attention or to express
love. If, however, Flora was accidentally shut
out from any room in which Miss F hap
pened to be she would scratch at the door and
whine and cry in a pitiful manner until the door
was opened.
Miss F had been staying with Col. and Mrs.
G— about three or four weeks, when she be
came suddenly ill, and determined to return
without delay to her home in the adjoining
county. Thither she was removed in an invalid
carriage; but, although she received every pos
sible care and attention, she appeared to got no
better; her malady was evidently increasing
daily.
About a month after Miss F had left Col.
G——'s house, he and his wife were one day in
their morning-room, which looked out upon an
extensive, lawn The bells of the neighboring
village church had begun to ring for the usual
daily matins, the time being 9:45, and the Colo
nel and his wife were preparing. to
attend, according to their regular
custom, when they observed Flora —
who was lying apparently asleep, close to the
open glass doors leading to the lawn—raised her
head quickly, and, with cocked ears and strained
eyes, looked intently down the lawn, as if she
saw something there which attracted her atten
tion. Ail at once she jumped up, bounded over
the grass, and commenced leaping up two or
three times, expressing all those signs of in
tense canine joy usually exhibited in meeting,
after an absence, some specially loved object.
In a moment, however, the dog ceased her ges
tures, dropped her tail and head, manifesting
every sign of abject fear, and, turning round,
rushed back to the house, into the room, and
crawled under the sofa, whence neither calling
nor coaxing on the part of Mrs. G—- could in
duce her to stir.
This peculiar conduct on the part of Flora,
who was remarkable for her high training and
perfect obedience, surprised anapei’plexea both
the Colonel and his wife quite as much as the
violent manifestations of joy, followed imme
diately by every sign of the most crouching
terror, ali of which were wholly unaccountable.
About two horn’s later in the (lay a telegram
was received by Mi’s. G containing the sad
and unexpected intelligence of the death of Miss
F-- at 9:45 that morning.
It may fairly be asked what could have caused
the dog suddenly to start up and rush down the
lawn with all the outward demonstrations of in
tense joy usually exhibited on seeing and meet
ing a loved friend? Flora, without doubt, must
have seen something, or fancied she saw some
thing, though invisible to the eyes of man; but,
finding it had no tangible substance, her cauine
instincts told her that it was unnatural and un
usual. and hence fear took the place of joy. and
she sought refuge in flight. That the object of
these tokens of love on the part of the dog
should have passed to her rest at the indention!
moment they were exhibited by the faithful and
attached Flora, is a coincidence regarding which
we will not pretend to offer an opinion.
A Dear Garment.
From the Boston Budget.
Her figure is neat
And graceful and trim,
Her face smiling sweet
’Neath hat’s rolling brim;
Her eyes shining bright
Are deep, darkly blue;
Her hair the light
Of the sun’s golden hue;,.
Her hat trimmed in bows
Of green, gold and brown,
Looks down in repose
At her graceful, draped gown.
She steps out so lightly,
It seems she must float,
Her form encased lightly
In short jaunty coat.
“Your jacket's becoming,”
He said with a smile.
His eyes calmly summing
The fit and the style.
“I think it is nice;
I got it quite cheap,
Twenty dollars the prico"—
His heart gave a leap.
“Cheap? perhaps so
To you it may lie;
But, now, do you know.
It’s a dear one to me.”
“Well, really, how queer;
Y’ou think as I do.
Of course it's a dear
And a lovely one, too.”
The “Back Log.”
From the Boston Transcript.
It will surprise many persons of the present
day to be told that the “Dock log” of whom we
read so much in old-time stories was a large
stone, ajoorous stone being preferred if possi
ble. Tins stone was buried in the ashes, and on
top was placed the "back stick." The back
stone in those primitive times played a very im
portant part in tkeeeonomy of eui-ly bousckeep
mg; matches were not then invented; Hint, steel
and tow were the only means of lighting a fire
or a lamp: imagine for a moment the "Bridget"
of to-day tints engaged with the thermometer
10° below zero in the kitchen. The stone, to
gether with the ashes with which it was cov
ered, served to retain Hre ami heat through the
night, and all that was necessary in the morn
ing was a little kindling and gentle use of the
indispensable Itellowx, ami a the was as readily
made as at the present day.
Back stones were not in much use in bed
rooms and parlors after the beginning of this
century, turf having taken its place and served
equally well, while takiug up less space. Tin
stone log in my possession and which belonged
to mv grandmother, and in use down to within
a few years of her death, half a century ngo. is
at the service of the Boston Society if thev
should think it of sufficient importance, it is
not less than 150 years old.
He Went On His Last Strike.
From the Washington Critic.
There's one laboring man in Washington who
has resumed nt the old stand, and sa'vs he has
mode his lost strike, lie s a good fellow, but
like* a glass now and then, and not long since
he tilled up and called on his employer.
"Well, John," said the old man, "wliatdoyou
want t"
"Want eight hoursh pay f’r ten hoursh work,
atxh what, want." said John, bravely.
"I guess you don't want that, John," smiled
the boss. “You've got it I lack ward, haven't
yout"
"Nosh yesh so have want ten hoursh work
f r ••■igtit hoursh ]iy, atsli what want Thought
didn't sound right somehow. (Join' to glvt to
mo - (Juit If you don't."
‘■Certainly, John; conn around in the morn
Ing and go to work."
John was mi baud early next day, and when
the boys liegau to rub it In on him lie swore that
any man who hadn't uuv more sense than he
had oughtn't to Is- puld at ail.
Tito New Dross of the Morning News.
From tin Mon tyomery Star dim )
The Havas,sam hi t Morninu Skw* has Just
donned an eri—diog|y handsome new dress,
and pmmit.iu decidedly attractive an-1 plnusing
apt>earuiii e The News Is uf.ei>f the most pros
l*"i'oda |W| ' ill the entire Kmuli, and is an
iiiilie uCal .ai.'l uoie factor in tie- affairs ofits
iinniedikio territory, wlm-h • oiupriaA* N<Hilhern
< ie.nym and J-loi ids. 1., I lias a deserved re| ej
tat ion t hrm.ghoul tor HUile it is on a solid
loundSUon. and is managed a Itii ootMtMUiiiMc
shlilt y by its proprietor ami uiUtor, Out J I*
iletlll. wlewe Miotqg as a uAVMia|Nrr limit lias
been |4e nonn nai l hough dnr In a genet iimu
ui - to ins tie.rough under
elaudiue of leisto*iss Whom
glsi nisi* ,u ' ••eoifetn// upon its . "trim
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Newspaper “Hawkers,” including men, boys,
women and girls, in London, are said to number
not less than 7/XV). a majority of them living
from hand to mouth.
A beogar in Spain is a gentleman and you
address him always in formal and courteous
language. "Brother,'’ you say, when he impor
tunes you, “may God put it into your heart to
deprive me of the pleasure of your society.”
The average Piute squaw isn’t much of a weak
vessel. The other day one of them in Austin,
Nev., took three fifty-pound sacks of flour on
her hack; then on top of this placed a yearling
pappoose, when she trotted off as briskly as a
young colt.
They are building a squirrel cage for men in
Oswego, N. Y. The cell moves slowly round
continually, carrying the prisoner with it. The
rotary motion is to prevent prisoners from
breaking through the walls. They don’t re
main in one spot long enough for a hole to be
made.
Twenty-five years ago Albert Ellis, of Wins
low, Me., filled up a clay pipe for a good smoke.
He used only half of its contents, for on the next
day he went to war. He survived and came
home, but did not finish that smoke until a few
days ago, when he happened to find the old pipe,
partly empty, just as he had left it.
They tell in Buffalo of a faithful workman en
gaged in extra dangerous work, who injured his
hand very severely. As the surgeon was at
tending to him the foreman hurried in and
said: "Sam, what time was it when you got
hurt?” “About 4 o’clock. Why do you ask v ”
“So I may know when to dock you.”
Four weeks ago Abbie Lindsey, an insane
pauper, escaped from the almshouse at Pres
cott, Mass., and perished in the snow. The in
vestigation that has followed showsgreat abuses
at the almshouse; inmates confined in small
and filthy rooms ;others restrained by a ball and
chain on their legs, and others punished by
ducking and horsewhipping.
Fifty years ago when James and Israel
Adams were 8 and 18 years old, their parents,
who lived at Shawan, Md., died, and the boys
were separated to live with relatives. The other
day James, who is now a business man in Phila
delphia. learned that Israel was in Pikesville,
Md., and he went there and saw him. The
meeting of the long-separated brothers is said
to have been affecting.
So low were the funds in the public treasury
of the United States at thp close of 1789, that
the Attorney General and several Congressmen
were indebted to the private credit of Alexander
Hamilton, their Secretary of State, to discharge
their personal expenses. President Washington
was obliged to pass a note to Tobias Leer, his
private secretary, to meet his household ex
penses, the note being discounted at the rate of
two per cent, a month, and members of Con
gress were paid in due bills.
The London correspondent to the New York
Herald describes a curious accident which oc
curred at Newcastle-on-Tyne recently, as fol
lows: During a performance by the Carl Rosa
troupe of the opera “Nordisa,” the storm busi
ness was on. The sound of thunder was made
by heavy cannon balls rolling along gutters
lined with sheet iron, which were twenty feet
above the stage. In some unaccountable way
one ball was dislodged immediately after a vivid
scenic flash of lightning and fell in the midst of
a group in the wings, between Miss Julia Gay
lord and some other performers who were wait
ing for their call, and landed upon the head of a
stage carpenter, who has since died.
At a banquet given to Mr. Theodore Metcalf
by the Boston Druggists’ Association Oliver
Wendell Holmes gave his opinion of apothe
caries as follows: “I have always had a great
opinion of the medical advice of apothecaries.
Tne truth is. they put up the proscriptions of all
the best physicians in the place in which they
live, and they have the very cream of all their
wisdom at their Angers’ ends. So, when I have
myself been suffering from any slight bodily in
convenience, I am ashamed to say—or ought to
be, perhaps—instead of going to a professional
brother, 1 have quietly crept into the back room
and asked Mr. Metcalf what such and such a
doctor was in the habit of prescribing.
A peculiar fire happened in a suburb of
Boston lately, and hut for its timely discovery
and extinguishment would have been added to
the list of fires from “incendiarism," “defective
flue,” "rats," or any of the causes attributed
where nothing is known of the cause. The lady
of the house was going out to call, but heard a
noise in the upper part of the house just as she
was about to shut the outside door behind her.
After some hesitation she re-entered the house,
went up stairs, and found the chamber carpet
burning quite briskly. Upon its extinguishment
it appears that the breeze from an open window
had blown the nmtoh-safe from the bureau to
the floor, broken it, and lighted t be matches.
The ballet corps of the Paris Grand Opera
consists of 115 women and girls. There are three
stars, ten first subjects, twenty-two second sub
jects, three divisions of coryphee* or leaders,
two quadrilles, divided into four sections, the
“walkers,” and the infant class, or “rats.” The
pupils receive 40c. each time they appear: the
young ladies of the quadrilles from S2O to S4O a
month; the coryphee* from SSO to $80; the sub
jects. or those who dance steps outside the en
semble figures, StSO to $800; the stars from $5,000
to SO,OOO per year. These last-named amounts
are less than the salaries paid in former days.
Thus Taglioni gained $7,200 a year; Fanny
Ellsler, $9,000; Carlotta Grlsi, $8,400; La Cerrito,
$9,000, and La Rosati, SI2,(XX). The organization
of the Grand Opera ballet dates from 1713 and
was decreed by Louis XIV. The grand monarch
even wrote the regulations for the first ballet
corps with his own hand.
Only Mr. Hayes, of the citizens who have
been Chief Executive of the country, is now
living, aside from the present occupant of this
responsible office. But there are eleven ladies
notv living each of whom have for a time been
mistress of the White House, two of whom,
Mrs. Semple and Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler,
were successively the first lady of the land un
der tho far-away Tyler administration. Mrs.
Polk is still living, as are also the widows of
Presidents Grant and Garfield, and the
wife of President Hayes. Mrs. Harriet
Lane Johnston was mistress of the White
House during the administration of her
bachelor uncle, James Buchanan. Mrs. Patter
son, daughter of President Johnson, did the
honors during the term of her father, as did
■Mrs. Me Elroy, sister of tho late President Ar
thur. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and Mrs.
Cleveland each have lieen lady of the White
House during the present term. Mrs. Cleveland
is so young that it is easily possible that her
name may figure in the list or those who have
been wives of Presidents fifty years from now,
and she would not attain then the age of Mrs.
Polk, or the equally venerable Mi’s. Madison,
who lived many years after the death of her
husband.
The power of a cat duet at midnight to at
tract bootjacks and other convenient missiles
has become proverbial. The other evening a
grimalkin concert was in progress in a Charles
town, Mass., yard, and the ear-splitting strains
were anything but a soothing lullaby to the res
idents Unable to endure the noise ‘ the gentle
man on whose premises the concert was being
held dressed himself, and going down to the
kitchen, armed himself with a dipper of scald
ing water and prejiured to give the disturbers
of his rest a copious dose of the hot liquid.
Opening stealthily his back door, he stopped
in the yard Just iu lime, not to realize his de
sire, hut to get upon the side of the head a
blow from a iioot. that brought
him to tho ground overturning
the scalding water about his own thinly-clad
liody. and causing him to give voice to an out
burst Unit was n more startling dtaturlxuiee to
the quiet of the nelgbliorhood than the concert
that bail tailed him from his bed. The neighbor
in an adjoining house, whose boot laid been so
forcibly thrown at the original offenders, must
have been convinced that, though he missed the
cat*, lie lmd hit something at any rate He,
however, has deemed it prudent to keen his iden
tity a mystery, and the leathern missile awaits a
claimant.
Tin most adroit smugglera across the Pyrenees
that divide the frontiers of France from Mpaln,
are a lireeii of dogs of tiie shepherd eiass, whose
origin can be traced lim it a tbousaod years, as
moved by old tapestries showing the retreat of
t'harhmiaguo through the iiioimtuin defiles.
These dogs have their homes In the wild regions
Hint girt Navarre to the West; and. Mug taken
uerisiM the frontier anil laden with Spanish laee
anil tobacco, they make theirreturntbroughse
ciet iMtsses, and during the dink hours of the
iilgln, to the gn at luyeltflcntlon of the custoni
house guards They are sild |o scent the offl
cers from afar, nml remain liidden until the
danger in post; but then, on the other liand,-
when once their liomi*s are ri-ai h'-'l. tbi'V are
the elites' wall'll di gs to is- found inlbei'oun
try Ihiring tiie Cnlllnt wiors Home of the dog*
a"iii|iaiilis| their maeiers In tin- field, and
their w this* were found to be very useful iu
oreveti*mg a surprise on tie- ouipaste. The
UHHIItW, ever alert to in. reuse tie- • flli.mry id
the arm), mad" a nova I es|jeriioenl in He-re
cent niMseuvres. of employing trained'bats of
the same •|es’tes in tiie IrausiiiUeioa of ucswaig'**
oa the ime of iMilposta. iwMilUiig In great sin
'"we TV animals u much latlij by the
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son, from the middle of his back down to hi*
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